Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-29
ANOTHER MURDER.
A NAN INSTANTLY KILLED DURING A
CAMP MEETING.
A Big Land Scheme in Wsbskr-Suppose
10 Have Been Murdeed-Wanied 10
Burn 8 Court House.

The Salvation Army has been holding a
camp meeting at Smithton, Doddridge
county, for several days. Alarge crowd
was attracted on Sunday, among whom
were F. N. Minear and Frank Mayes, who
got into a difficulty over a dog fight, but
were separated. Shortly afterward a shot
was heard, and Minear dropped dead, shot
just above the heart. Mayes was arrested
for the crime and taken to West Union,
from which place he was brought to
Clarksburg on Monday night 1t is also
learned that the camp meeting was badly
demoralized the same day by one or more
citizens, who, under the influence OF liquor,
conceived a desire to annihilate it. Min
ear was q married man and leaves a wife
and FIVE children. Mayes is married, but
has no children.
THEY MUST OWN THE COUNTY.
A telegram to the Pittsburg Dispatch
from Detroit, Michigan, says Micael
Jeffets, the East Saginaw lumberman, has
deposited with the Third National Bank
of this city a description, by A. NJ. Hurst,
civil engineer of London, England, and
w. W. McLanohan, an American sur
yeyor, of 80, 900 acres of land, compris.
ing most of Webster county, West Virginia,
upon which Mr.. LETTERS has an option of
purchase at ridiculously low figure. Mr..
LETTERS says that while at Long Branch
this summer he met the owner of
this property, who was 81
years old and groaning under the
weight OF this immense u~nproductiye
property, The old man offered to unload
his land to Mr.. LETTERS and thus Mr.. LETTERS
secured his option. The report Of the ex-
perts before mentioned says that the profit
OIL. coal, iron and timber on the property,
estimated at the low margin of sixpence a
ton on iron and coal, and sixpence a cubic
foot on timber, would mount to 81, 6l2,-
500, 600 op the whole tract. Mr.. LETTERS
says that he will let Michigan men only
into the deal. David Ward is said to own
a large tract of adjacent land. The advent
of the Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake
& Ohio railroads will open up the country.
A MISSING MAN.
A Charleston telegram says: DR.. J. F.
Halcomb and family, of Anthonis Creek,
Greenbrier county, came to Fishers Point,
this county-some twenty-six miles u
from here, on the waters of POGO Lake,
last week, with 4 view of locating. Last
Saturday morning DR.. Holcomb harnessed
his horse to the buggy, and, telling his
wife he would soon return, left TO collect
some money. He has not returned. His
wife went as far in search of him IS Coop
er's creek, on the Elk, and learned that he
stayed all night the day he left home at
Robert Cohen's. There she heard two or
three conflicting stories, and had to return
home. As DR.. Holcomb had considerable
money on his person, it is supposed that
he has been murdered, and a search has
been instituted. The place he was last
seen in is a neighborhood of counterfeiters
and bad men generally.
WANTED TO BURN THE COURT HOUSE.
Lee Hilton, convicted at this term of
the Court for forgery, and now confined in
Jail at ~Barboursville, tried to burn the Jail
Monday by setting fire to his bed. The
fire was e~xtinguished before much damage
WAS done.